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Can anyone beat this offer? No, I mean...other way...

raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran
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In another thread, @angstrom observed that in this famous, dare I say seminal (stop it @Nekki) article from 2009...

https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

...LEAdmin refers to a vpslink.com offer with these specs:

  • 2.5GB (no, not SSD)
  • 100GB BW
  • 64MB RAM

...for $7.95/mo, or $6.62 if prepaid for a year. Not quite LEB but pretty close.

Here's the thing...it's still for sale...at those same specs and price: http://vpslink.com/vps-hosting/

One of the many reasons I'm not a billionaire is that if I was, I'd do stupid things like sign up for this plan and then demand to know why CentOS won't boot (it's offered as an option).

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  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider
    edited December 2016

    What a steal.

    Is it just me or are their datacenter pictures all only 69x52 pixels in size and no way to enlarge? http://vpslink.com/about/network-datacenter/pictures/

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  • lustixlustix Member

    are the ram sticks made out of gold? dafuq

  • dnomdnom Member

    On the home page you can read:

    The Industry’s Most Affordable VPS Web Hosting

    Starting At $6.62/mo. You Won’t Find A Better Deal...

  • Ole_JuulOle_Juul Member

    It reminds me of Ebay pricing. I go to look for something and choose "price + shipping: lowest first" and find what I want. Then, just for fun, I click "highest first" and there is the exact same item for 1000 times the price. I think it is just some kind of Parallel Universe of Dark Matter. Can you actually get there from here?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    Well I guess we can't fault them for their honesty.

    What type of hardware will my VPS be hosted on?
Our hardware configurations scale to address the needs of the users on each node. Your account will be provisioned on the following hardware configurations:
Dual Core Pentium 4 with 3 SATA disks in a RAID5 configuration

    If one could actually sells those packages at those prices on that hardware, hell, I'd start raindoghost.com immediately.

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  • jcalebjcaleb Member

    That post about running 18 static site on a 64mb vps changed my life

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  • sinsin Member

    Someone take one for the team and sign up so you can give us some benches

  • WSSWSS Member

    @jcaleb said:
    That post about running 18 static site on a 64gb vps changed my life

    Mine too! I love WordPress!

  • AmitzAmitz Member

    @MikeA said:
    What a steal.

    Is it just me or are their datacenter pictures all only 69x52 pixels in size and no way to enlarge? http://vpslink.com/about/network-datacenter/pictures/

    So what? It's a small DC! ;-)

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  • ClouviderClouvider Member, Patron Provider

    @raindog308 said:
    Well I guess we can't fault them for their honesty.

    > What type of hardware will my VPS be hosted on?
> Our hardware configurations scale to address the needs of the users on each node. Your account will be provisioned on the following hardware configurations:
> Dual Core Pentium 4 with 3 SATA disks in a RAID5 configuration
>

    If one could actually sells those packages at those prices on that hardware, hell, I'd start raindoghost.com immediately.

    You could, just not at scale :p.

  • dodedodododedodo Member

    MikeA said: Is it just me or are their datacenter pictures all only 69x52 pixels in size and no way to enlarge? http://vpslink.com/about/network-datacenter/pictures/

    It's not just you

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    raindog308 said: Here's the thing...it's still for sale...at those same specs and price: http://vpslink.com/vps-hosting/

    I especially like "Ubuntu 12.04 Coming Soon" and "Fedora 16 Coming Soon" (yay!). Or, among "Popular Topics" on their wiki (http://wiki.vpslink.com/Main_Page), I like "Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP HOWTO" (high time to figure that one out!).

    What I don't understand is how vpslink.com manage to survive. Do they simply have a significant loyal customer base that stays with them for years and years without ever doing any value/price comparisons? Perhaps. (It may just be difficult for us accustomed to LEB/LET to imagine this ...)

  • WSSWSS Member

    @angstrom said:

    raindog308 said: Here's the thing...it's still for sale...at those same specs and price: http://vpslink.com/vps-hosting/

    I especially like "Ubuntu 12.04 Coming Soon" and "Fedora 16 Coming Soon" (yay!). Or, among "Popular Topics" on their wiki (http://wiki.vpslink.com/Main_Page), I like "Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP HOWTO" (high time to figure that one out!).

    What I don't understand is how vpslink.com manage to survive. Do they simply have a significant loyal customer base that stays with them for years and years without ever doing any value/price comparisons? Perhaps. (It may just be difficult for us accustomed to LEB/LET to imagine this ...)

    Heaven's Gate VPS (We'll contain your containers).

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  • YmpkerYmpker Member
    edited December 2016

    A client of mine I do IT related stuff for (a ~50 y/o psycho therapist) has no clue whatsoever about the hosting scene and was stuck with "managed webhosting" of a german company ive never heard of, which made her website (basic html) paying ~60€/month for minimal web adjustments (larger tasks would be extra pay) and hosting (5gb space) which she maybe needed once a year to change a h1 . I will transfer her asap when her contract ends in january (we cancelled it already ofc).
    So yeah shes been with them for years so there ARE ppl not double checking their expenses every year.

  • JasperNLJasperNL Member
    edited December 2016

    Their terms of service are lastly updated in 2014. What happened to their minds that they thought that their services were still competative back then?

    I really want to know how many people are still using them.

    EDIT: Ironically their IP resolves to "The Endurance International Group".

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  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    JasperNL said: Their terms of service are lastly updated in 2014. What happened to their minds that they thought that their services were still competative back then?

    I really want to know how many people are still using them.

    EDIT: Ironically their IP resolves to "The Endurance International Group".

    It has also occurred to me that vpslink.com (the hosting company) may be (in part) a front end for something else ...

  • JonchunJonchun Member

    @Ympker said:
    A client of mine I do IT related stuff for (a ~50 y/o psycho therapist) has no clue whatsoever about the hosting scene and was stuck with "managed webhosting" of a german company ive never heard of, which made her website (basic html) paying ~60€/month for minimal web adjustments (larger tasks would be extra pay) and hosting (5gb space) which she maybe needed once a year to change a h1 . I will transfer her asap when her contract ends in january (we cancelled it already ofc).
    So yeah shes been with them for years so there ARE ppl not double checking their expenses every year.

    If you're running a brick and mortar business, ~60€/month isn't all that much (especially if it's from a place that just works and gives you no problems). A lot of these non-technically savvy people just can't be bothered to spend time looking at cheaper alternatives when they can just pay and be done with it.

  • fourzerofourfourzerofour Member

    @MikeA said:
    What a steal.

    Is it just me or are their datacenter pictures all only 69x52 pixels in size and no way to enlarge? http://vpslink.com/about/network-datacenter/pictures/

    There is a way.. albeit non intuitive

  • stefemanstefeman Member

    Holy shit.. those prices lol

  • jesinjesin Member

    YES.

    Travel in time back to 2003 and order from Linode.

    • 1GB Storage
    • 64MB RAM
    • 25GB premium bandwidth

    With a Committed Megahertz Rate of 64MHz.

    ALL FOR JUST $19.95/mo.

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  • StevieStevie Member

    I sent them a email - I wonder if they are still active

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    I'd forgotten I was a vpslink.com customer...23 Nov 2006 signup email in my archives. Unfortunately, although I found every other personal detail of mine from that era (full name, address, phone, root password, etc.) in plain text email, I didn't find the specs.

    I'm laughing because the vpslink-5 1024MB plan has dropped $5/mo in 10 years' time.

    https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20061116005347/http://www.vpslink.com:80/vps-hosting/

  • IncognitoBurritoIncognitoBurrito Member

    @Stevie said:
    I sent them a email - I wonder if they are still active

    They've bothered to keep the footer updated with the current year, which is quite...sad?

  • hostnoobhostnoob Member

    First VPS I ever bought. At that time, $10/mo for 128MB RAM was common (I used Future Hosting)

  • jcalebjcaleb Member

    Dextronox said: They've bothered to keep the footer updated with the current year, which is quite...sad?

    or generated by code?

  • IncognitoBurritoIncognitoBurrito Member
    edited December 2016

    @jcaleb said:

    Dextronox said: They've bothered to keep the footer updated with the current year, which is quite...sad?

    or generated by code?

    Shhhh, it makes a good story.

    I guess we'll see in 8 days :)

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    Dextronox said: @jcaleb said:

       Dextronox said: They've bothered to keep the footer updated with the current year, which is quite...sad?

    or generated by code?

    Shhhh, it makes a good story.

    I guess we'll see in 8 days :)

    Well, if you look at the source code of the front page (view-source:http://vpslink.com/) and you scroll to the bottom, it appears that the year was updated by hand, so there is someone around who modifies that page at least once a year ...

  • Ole_JuulOle_Juul Member

    Do they know we're talking about them?

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    Ole_Juul said: Do they know we're talking about them?

    Unlikely -- vpslink.com doesn't seem to have ever been registered (or represented by someone) on LET.

    But it appears that they were nevertheless part of the collective consciousness back then. If one digs a little, one can even find our own @jcaleb suggesting that vpslink.com had a beautiful site:

    https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/5293/hosts-with-beautiful-sites

    :-)

  • jcalebjcaleb Member

    @angstrom said:

    Dextronox said: @jcaleb said:

       Dextronox said: They've bothered to keep the footer updated with the current year, which is quite...sad?

    or generated by code?

    Shhhh, it makes a good story.

    I guess we'll see in 8 days :)

    Well, if you look at the source code of the front page (view-source:http://vpslink.com/) and you scroll to the bottom, it appears that the year was updated by hand, so there is someone around who modifies that page at least once a year ...

    I stand corrected. Yes they update the year once a year but price remains the same.

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